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Who is leading the 5G patent race for edge computing?

In the future, half of the world’s data volume will no longer be generated by or between people but by vehicles, sensors, or other various types of networked devices, according to some predictions. Not only the number of devices but also the volume of data continues to increase dramatically. Telecom equipment supplier Ericsson estimates that global data traffic will increase fivefold to 136 exabytes per month within the next five years, compared to today. The expectation is that a typical end user will generate up to 1.5 gigabytes of data per day, and a vehicle with up to 4 terabytes even several times that amount.The 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), the organisation responsible for cellular standards development, already had these new requirements in mind when it defined the fifth-generation mobile network 5G. At its core, 5G was...

26 May 2021

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‘Passing of torch’ in quantum computing race as Toronto’s Xanadu raises $100-million from Bessemer, CIA, Jeff Skoll

Christian Weedbrook, founder of the quantum technologies company, Xanadu, listens in as Varun Vaidya, left, discusses the working principle of one of the building blocks of quantum computers, at their office in Toronto on June 20, 2019. Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail Toronto startup Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. has raised US$100-million led by U.S. venture capital giant Bessemer Venture Partners as competition intensifies to bring quantum computers to market. The financing, first reported by The Globe and Mail this month, is also backed by Canadian billionaire Jeff Skoll’s Capricorn Investment Group and U.S. investment giant Tiger Global and past investors Georgian, OMERS Ventures and U.S. venture capitalist Tim Draper. The funding values Xanadu at US$400-million post-transaction. Notably, BDC Capital and In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Central...

25 May 2021

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The global quantum computing race has begun. What will it take to win it?

The UK is now facing a huge challenge: after having secured a top spot in the quantum race, retaining the country's status is going to require some serious stepping up. Image: Microsoft National quantum programs and decade-long quantum strategies are increasingly being announced by governments around the world. And as countries unlock billions-worth of budgets, it is becoming clear that a furious competition is gradually unrolling. Nations want to make sure that they are the place-to-be when quantum technologies start showing some real-world value – and the UK, for one, is keen to prove that it is a quantum hotspot in the making. "We have a very successful program that is widely admired and emulated around the world," said Peter Knight,...

9 February 2021

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Is China leading the quantum computing race?

Is China leading the quantum computing race?. Source: ShutterstockA Chinese quantum computer succeeded in performing a calculation 100 trillion times faster than a conventional computer could — surpassing Google’s achievement by a factor of 10 billionChina has invested heavily in quantum computing, with Xi Jinping’s government spending US$10 billion on the country’s National Laboratory for Quantum Information SciencesJust last year a team from Google achieved what it called “quantum supremacy” when its quantum computer performed a calculation faster than a conventional computer could. Google’s John Martinis and Sergio Boixo in a blog post said “Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds, and from measurements in our experiment, we determined that it would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to...

21 December 2020

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As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer Secrets

Back in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer app.Shor trained his efforts on a calculation called "factoring," which ordinarily nobody but a mathematician would care about, except it just happens to be an Achilles heel of the internet. If someone were to invent a computer that could perform this operation quickly, messages that are currently hidden from hackers, terrorists, military adversaries, governments and competitors would be as easy to read as a Stephen King novel.Shor, of course, didn't have such a computer. He was writing an algorithm, or program, for a hypothetical machine that might one day exploit the weird properties of atoms and subatomic particles, as described by the theory of quantum mechanics, to perform calculations...

14 December 2020

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Quantum computer race intensifies as alternative technology gains steam

An ion trap from Honeywell’s quantum computer.Credit: Honeywell Quantum Solutions A technology for building quantum computers that has long been sidelined by major companies is gaining momentum. As quantum computing has transformed from academic exercise to big business over the past decade, the spotlight has mostly been on one approach — the tiny superconducting loops embraced by technology giants such as IBM and Intel. Superconductors enabled Google last year to claim it had achieved ‘quantum advantage’ with a quantum machine that for the first time performed a particular calculation that is beyond the practical capabilities of the best classical computer. But a separate approach, using ions trapped in electric fields, is gaining traction in the quest to make a commercial quantum computer.Earlier this year, technology and...

17 November 2020

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Who is leading the 5G patent race for edge computing?

‘Passing of torch’ in quantum computing race as Toronto’s Xanadu raises $100-million from Bessemer, CIA, Jeff Skoll

The global quantum computing race has begun. What will it take to win it?

Is China leading the quantum computing race?

As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer Secrets

Quantum computer race intensifies as alternative technology gains steam